weechat's weechat relay plugin | |
Saturday Jan 18 3:11:44 2014 | |
Weechat supports two different relay protocols: 'irc' and 'weechat' | |
I know that the names 'irc' and 'weechat' sound a bit confusing | |
because they both refer to an internet protocol and an irc program | |
and also to the names of two protocols which are specific to an irc | |
program, weechat in this case. But I hope I can make it clear :) | |
Last year I wrote a phlog post on how to use the 'irc' one (which c | |
be used with almost any irc client). And today I will explain how t | |
use weechat's weechat relay plugin (which is easier to setup but ha | |
the disadvantage that you can only connect to it with a client that | |
supports it (for example weechat itself, QWeeChat or weechat-androi | |
You can also read the full tutorial that I added to sdfeu's website | |
Weechat tutorial | |
Let us start from scratch. To begin with, start weechat-curses, | |
connect to your networks/servers and join your favourite channels. | |
In order to use the 'weechat' protocol on sdfeu you only need one | |
single port which is your uid number. Type 'id' at the shell and yo | |
will see something similar to this: | |
odin:~$ id | |
uid=007(bond) gid=500(arpa) groups=500(arpa),600(MetaARPA),700(dba) | |
Only the "uid" part is relevant here, "uid=007(bond)" which means | |
that "007" is the "port" and "bond" is the "username". Let's now | |
assume that user "bond" wants to use the password "james_bond" (Thi | |
way, you will understand the examples better). | |
- Inside weechat: | |
* First add the relay | |
/relay add weechat port | |
Example: /relay add weechat 007 | |
* Set the password | |
/set relay.network.password "password" | |
Example: /set relay.network.password "james_bond" | |
- On the client side: | |
Now, simply connect from your client to sdfeu.org using your port a | |
your password. Your client will connect to the client running on sd | |
and connect to all the networks and channels and besides, it will | |
retrieve the backlog. | |
Nifty! | |